• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Tail Light 1157 bulb, replace with LED

Centerline

Centerline

Husqvarna
AA Class
Pulled the lens off my TE 450 tail lightimage.jpg
image.jpg removed the stock incandescent 1157. Replaced with jamstrait 1157R automotive LED's
 

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Dummy alert. Not enough research before changing the tail light. Pic of original tail light...image.jpg

Followed by brake light...image.jpg

Now the new LED tail light.....image.jpg

LED brake light .......image.jpg

Obviously, the incandescent tail light is WAY brighter than the new LED light. Really dim, and being red when on, illuminates just barely the license plate area. I know there are much brighter and white LED 1157 bulbs out there
 
I think its enough light(with the led), do you think you will need more illumination on the back? I dont think so..
 
Yes, I think it will illuminate the license enough, tho I will go with a much brighter LED tail light, or add a bright LED license plate frame, or maybe both. With the LED tail light, I like much that when the brake light illuminates, the head light does not dim slightly.
 
Centerline said:
Dummy alert. Not enough research before changing the tail light. Pic of original tail light...View attachment 45587

Followed by brake light...View attachment 45588

Now the new LED tail light.....View attachment 45589

LED brake light .......View attachment 45590

Obviously, the incandescent tail light is WAY brighter than the new LED light. Really dim, and being red when on, illuminates just barely the license plate area. I know there are much brighter and white LED 1157 bulbs out there
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UPDATE 2 months later...
Different 1157 base LED tail / brake light
Pic of tail running light
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Pic of brake light...
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Got the latest at Walmart
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I did the same thing a year or so ago and wasn't impressed with the bulb. Went back to stock. So you think the Wally bulb is brighter? Hard to actually tell from a photo.
 
Baroquenride said:
I did the same thing a year or so ago and wasn't impressed with the bulb. Went back to stock. So you think the Wally bulb is brighter? Hard to actually tell from a photo.
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Yeah the Wally World bulb is brighter than the first LED bulb and actually illuminates the plate area. IMHO, it's nearly as bright as the OEM bulb, but way less watts....no dimming of headlight when brake light lit.
Next will be LED headlight, should I want to ride at night again.
 
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